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Organisations
BBC gardening website
BBC Gardener's Question Time radio show
BBC Local radio gardening programmes
English Heritage
Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
The Garden History Society
The Garden Museum
Garden Organic (HDRA)
The Great Dixter Charitable Trust
Guerilla Gardening (UK)
The Hardy Plant Society
Italian gardens to visit: Grandi Giardini Italiani
National Garden Scheme (NGS)
The National Trust
The National Trust for Scotland
Plant Heritage (The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens)
RHS Plant Finder
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Horticultural Society
The Tree Council
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Soil Association
Talking Newspaper Association (for audio versions of Gardens Illustrated)
Thrive
ThinkinGardens
Garden Shows & Plant Fairs
For smaller local plant fairs and shows, please see our diary pages
UK
Bloom, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Irish garden show and plant fair, held at the end of May/beginning of June each year.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London
The oldest RHS show and the most famous, held at the end of May each year. Best for stunning show gardens by international designers and a huge floral marquee with displays from nurseries. You can’t buy plants but can order them here.
The Cottesbrooke Plantfinders Fair, Northampton
Plant fair with some product stalls, held at the end of June each year, now in association with Gardens Illustrated. Beautiful setting for an elegant fair filled with specially selected nurseries and stalls. Find rare and quality plants in a relaxed atmosphere.
Future Gardens, St Albans
New contemporary garden show where international designers create gardens for the whole summer season, open from June until October. Part of the new Butterfly World project.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Surrey
Held in July every year, the huge RHS show is best for plant and product-buying, but the conceptual show gardens are beginning to really make a name for themselves as well.
Malvern Spring Gardening Show, Worcestershire
Held in early May each year. A large but friendly fair that is fantastic for plant-buying. Also has some small show gardens.
RHS Show Tatton Park, Cheshire
Huge show often with show gardens from up-and-coming designers and lot so of plants including from more northern nurseries.
Abroad
Beervelde Garden Days, Belgium
Spring and autumn plant fairs, every second weekend of May and October, that count among the most important horticultural events in Belgium.
Chaumont Festival International des Jardins, France
Summer-long conceptual design show which has recently expanded with exhibitions and garden events.
The Gardens at Cornerstone Place, California, USA
Permanent show gardens that are periodically updated and changed, from renowned international designers.
Hex Festival of Rare Plants, Belgium
Summer and autumn plant fairs, every second weekend of June and September, with specialist nurseries and plenty of demonstrations and talks.
International Garden Festival, Reford Gardens, Métis, Canada
Summer-long contemporary garden show, attracting international designers to create stunning modern and conceptual gardens.
Blogs we follow
Baklava Shed Coalition
Blogging from Blackpitts Garden (James Alexander-Sinclair)
Elspeth Thompson’s Weblog
Fennel & Fern
Garden History Girl
The Garden Monkey
Garden Rant
Guardian Gardening Blog
Guerilla Gardening
Heavy Petal
Kiss My Aster!
My Tiny Plot
My Urban Garden Deco Guide
Noels Garden Blog (Noel Kingsbury)
Shedworking
Some Landscapes
Thistlebrook
Tilth & Tillage (Cleve West)
Transatlantic Plantsman (Graham Rice)
View from Federal Twist
You Grow Girl
Garden designers and landscape architects
James Alexander-Sinclair
Marcus Barnett
Jinny Blom
Christopher Bradley-Hole
Kathryn Gustafson
Arabella Lennox-Boyd
Nicola Lesbirel
Arne Maynard
Philip Nixon
Dan Pearson
Sarah Price
Brita von Schoenaich
Tom Stuart-Smith
Andy Sturgeon
Julie Toll
Xa Tollemache
Cleve West
Photographers
Cristian Barnett
Nicola Browne
Jonathan Buckley
Torie Chugg
Sarah Cuttle
Jerry Harpur
Walter Herfst
Guy Hervais
Charlie Hopkinson
Jason Ingram
Andrea Jones
Gavin Kingcome
Andrew Lawson
Sean Malyon
Sharon Pearson
Le Scanff-Mayer
Jane Sebire
Howard Sooley
Claire Takacs
Rachel Warne
Holidays
Distant Horizons
French Gardens Today
Arena Travel
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